Israel develops drip irrigation to solve rice paddy problem – Netafim, a company that pioneered drip irrigation in Israel decades ago, has just finished a pilot scheme using its environmentally friendly tech on 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) of rice fields in locations from Europe to southern Asia | ynetnews

An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world with rice for generations but cause a surprising level of damage to the environment.
Rice is the staple food for more than half the global population, but its cultivation uses 30-40% of the world’s freshwater and is responsible for 10% of manmade emissions of greenhouse gas methane, according to the U.N.-backed Sustainable Rice Platform.